Look at God in movies over the years and you'll see a wide variety of portrayals.
Today's digitally projected deity is far from the disembodied voice Charlton Heston, as Moses, encountered in the 1956 epic "The Ten Commandments." That 220-minute film — which had its first public screening in Salt Lake City — took a reverent attitude toward God, choosing not to physically depict him, but rather to use Heston's voice in the burning bush scene and other, unidentified voices for God in subsequent scenes.
Fast-forward to December 2014 and the premiere of "Exodus: Gods and Kings," a $140 million movie directed by filmmaker Ridley Scott and starring Christian Bale as a post-modern Moses. Here, God appears in human form: that of young Malak, played by Isaac Andrews, an 11-year-old British actor.
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